{"id":826837,"date":"2026-07-26T08:20:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T08:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/826837\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T08:20:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T08:20:26","slug":"purdue-rolls-past-vancouver-selects-in-opening-contest-purdue-boilermakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/826837\/","title":{"rendered":"Purdue Rolls Past Vancouver Selects in Opening Contest &#8211; Purdue Boilermakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER, B.C. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/purduesports.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/gicarri-harris\" title=\"Gicarri Harris\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gicarri Harris<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/purduesports.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/antione-west-jr\" title=\"Antione West Jr.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Antione West Jr.<\/a> scored 20 points apiece, while Purdue made 15, 3-pointers in a dominant 102-63 victory over the Vancouver Selects at Langara College.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Boilers finished the first half with a commanding 60-35 lead, after a 33-point first quarter including six triples.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The largest lead of the game for the Boilers was 97-53 on a <a href=\"https:\/\/purduesports.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/jacob-webber\" title=\"Jacob Webber\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Webber<\/a> pull-up jumper from the right elbow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Harris and West Jr. led Purdue, while true freshmen <a href=\"https:\/\/purduesports.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/luke-ertel\" title=\"Luke Ertel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Ertel<\/a> and Webber each finished with 11 points. <a href=\"https:\/\/purduesports.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/daniel-jacobsen\" title=\"Daniel Jacobsen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Jacobsen<\/a> was the fifth and final Boilermaker in double figures with 10 on the night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Six Boilermakers made their Purdue debuts in the exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>Purdue will take on Trinity Western tomorrow, Jul. 26, starting at 7:00 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER, B.C. &#8211; Gicarri Harris and Antione West Jr. scored 20 points apiece, while Purdue made 15, 3-pointers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-826837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}